 Literally right next to a sign that says fishing area. Oh, there's one. Got it. Oh, there's a fish right there on a bed. All right, y'all, you need to take a look at this. This is what I was talking about the last video. Got him. Throw that little finesse on him. Little finesse on him. Just a little guy. Little guy, but he was right by the boat and he was fun. You were fun. Part of that new wave that's coming up here to spawn, sir. Welcome back to the channel, everybody. Starting the day off with a catch here. Go ahead and hit the like button for that. Today's Outdoor Greatness is brought to you by Favorite Fishing USA, y'all. If you watch any of the videos from the big sexy line, down to the whitebirds, which are an entry level rod that everybody can afford, all the way up to a premium super light, super sensitive rods, favorite scotch yet. So, link's down in the description if you wanna check it out. And specifically, if you wanna check out the LFG make-up and cast count series rod that I use just about every day. So thank you, Favorite Fishing USA, and we are working on more stuff with them as we speak. More models, more dangles. One left you guys off last time. I was catching a lot of fish, a lot of numbers, and as we kinda got to the afternoon, the fish started really betting up. The male bass started betting up. The one that I just caught, literally. I mean, it's just betting. So the full moon has passed, the storms have stopped, and now that the water is stabilized, even though it flooded a little bit, it stabilized. These fish are moving up into that brush around the bank, just new cover. Gonna go try to figure those fish out, and if that pattern is not good, the spawning fish can be tough. That's not savvy enough. I'm gonna head out and I'm gonna explore some other patterns and try to get on the most fish and the biggest fish that I can. I think we're gonna have a good time together today, y'all. Let's go keepin' it. I just heard something get slurped on another bank. Y'all, the technique that I'm using here, because it is just such a clear water lake, is I'm goin' wacky style with these shallow fish using the stick bait. Amazing spring-time lure. The key is just finding the right banks. They have the right steepness and hardness. Seein' a few cruisin' in the shallows, I just break it out, and I start makin' cast lateral to the bank. I'm just workin' it kinda slow. They are in there. Another one by that isolated tree. Little guy. Whoa, whoa! Where you goin' there, sir? You suck at your fightin' hard. A little bit bigger than the last one. See ya. Isolated tree right there, he just picked it up. Oh no, lost it. I was lookin' at one right under this tree. Call me confident, but I think there's gonna be one on this point. Nice hard point that juts out right at me. Oh, okay, hang on a second. You're a little, but I knew you were gonna be there. And I bet there is another one by this isolated tree again. It was about time to retie. The fish was, like, sittin' there with it. I was about to lift up my rod for another cast. It's a spotted bass there. Healthy spotted bass. Pick up the wacky here. There is going to be one in here on the wacky. Oh, gosh. Wow, that's, wow. No way. That's a little one there. That's a, that's a tiny one. Big small, I sniff them all though. Couple of little fish right there. Nothing Instagram worthy, I guess you could say. There's a little afternoon wind pickin' up, or at least where I am right now. Kind of torn if I should keep going the back of pockets where I should try something more main lake. I really have not scored a lot of this lake. One more pocket up there looks pretty good. It's got an actual three-fronted in it, like that one. That usually will mean there's a deeper channel, a deeper cut. When I get into the flat areas, no. That's a no-go. But if there's a steeper bank, there's protection, good hard bottom, they're doing it. There's a good one. Oh, it broke me off. Should've retied. Caught a bunch of fish on that same deal earlier. One wrapped me around a tree and I didn't retie and well, that's what you get. That was a better fish. Steeper bank, literally right next to a sign that says fishing area. Guess the state of Oklahoma puts in some brush or something like that, deems some sites as fishing areas. We have to look at that with the electronics for the crappie times. Oh, there's one, much, much smaller. That drag just did, just right. Oh, it's a spotted bass. I think, yep, it's a spotted bass. Hey there, filler. Man, spotted bass just feel rougher, like a snake. Scales are gnarly, pretty awesome fish. See you, dude, beautiful. Some water flowing in, beautiful, man. Beautiful, majestic, dragonflies running around. Oh my gosh, I'm seeing a lot of bass moving right now. Oh my gosh, what, they're on the bank. Right there on the bank. God, just had one on a bed right there. God, there's so many fish in here. Like, there's hundreds of fish back in this pocket. All little males getting ready to spawn. And then there's some species back here. I don't even know what it is. It could be like a Sager, something like that. I've never caught before. Kind of want to figure out how to catch them. Oh, there's another one. Golly, they're packed in here like sardines. Yep, y'all are just sardines. Oh, dang it, I lost my lure. Whoa, look at you, you true largemouth. That is a largemouth bass, northern largemouth. Beautiful, right in there. Oh, that's a better one. Oh, I've lost him, tatgummit. Man. Ah, you never lose them on that single hook like that. That was the best fish I've had the whole trip. Y'all, I think back to the pockets for the largemouth. Get right there was a hot pocket. Hashtag hot pocket, I lost two good ones in there. So that makes me think that is the right thing to do. That was, I mean, I was seeing swarms of fish in the very back of the creek after the rain. Man, good decision to come up here instead of fishing the mud holes. But I don't have much sun left, so I'm gonna head closer to the ramp. This lake is huge. I wanna make sure I'm not lost out here. Okay, y'all see that island right there? Since it is just so crowded, everyone has decided to come camp up here. I don't blame them, it's a great place to come camping. But since I have a boat, and there's an island right there that has camping on it, but you can't get to it because the rest of it's flooded only by boat, I'm just gonna go up to my truck. I'm gonna get my pack, put it in this boat, go over here, I'm gonna spend the night on this island. I got a boat, I got a tent, it's here for me. Got her pack, got her firewood. It's looking like it's gonna be a mountain house meal, but that's okay, I need to get used to those. That's what I'm gonna be eating on the mountain in New Zealand for quite a long time, like eight or nine days. There's home for tonight. I don't think I can pick a better place to sleep tonight. I'm on my own island, so I don't have to worry about people coming and poking me with sticks at night. I pretty much just have the basics in here. I try to pack this out like I am in New Zealand, so I've got my clothes, which all these are real packable. I've got two, believe it or not, a puffy pant, a puffy jacket, underwear, socks, like pretty much everything for a mountain hunt in there, besides rain gear, which is in the top here. And then I've got my tent. The tent is a two man. I got a two man because I'm going with another guy, but not saying we're gonna sleep together, I'm just saying, because I got a lot of stuff. One thing I did forget, and I'm just realizing that is my sleeping pad. Now this is gonna suck. I had this big, luxurious sleeping pad. It fit like the whole thing, fit inside of here. Filled up the whole, it was, ah, I'm gonna have to fashion myself, some sort of sleeping pad. I've got rocks right here, which don't really feel too good on the old back. Anyways, we're gonna get this tent up, and then we're just gonna prepare our minds and bodies to sleep on the rocks. The rock is just a no-go, little softer, a little muddy, but it's gonna have to do. Also, there's someone's random sock there. There's our Motel Kuyu for tonight. So, our cooking system for tonight is going to be a portable burner, a little portable propane, Coleman. This is a portable camping stove, pretty neat little unit here. I've got an adapter, you know, so I can put this on my big propane or my little one right here. This is what we're gonna be carrying up in New Zealand. I can turn this on with a little pressure right there, and then light it up. And then let's get into what we're having to eat tonight, little mountain house. Who hadn't had them in nice old mountain house? Geez, I don't think I've ever had a mountain house. I've had an MRE before, but never a mountain house. My choices are rice and chicken or spaghetti. What would you have? Let me know in the comments. I think I'm gonna go with some spaghetti. 12 grams of protein, 2.5 servings in an entree. Well, I'm gonna have them all. Cool thing about these is you can put boiling water inside of it, and then you let it sit, it cooks, and you're basically cooking inside of the package. So, just gotta boil some water. Let's be two cups, 16 ounces. Enriched spaghetti, durum wheat, some millennia, nice and frisvive, thiamine monitrayate, riboflavin, folic acid, tomato paste, cooked beef, beef flavoring, and salt. Boy, you know when you really can't read everything on there, it's gonna be a tasty treat in your gut later. You could go two ways in your bowels, you know. It could go, it speed things up or it could slow things down, I don't know. No camp would be complete without a little fire, regular matches, and then some fire starters. Finally got a fire started. All right now, let's enjoy ourselves a mountain house. It's been stewing in there for about eight minutes inside of its own bag. Scope out the digs, it's time to sleep under the stars. No sleeping pad. Well, it does smell like spaghetti. Given that, my buddy was telling me to get an extra long spoon for this journey, and now I know why. The short spoon just goes way down in there. Gets your knuckles all skeddy, sked up. Wow. What's those things we used to eat when we were kids? Skeddy-os, spaghetti-os? It's exactly what it tastes like, spaghetti-os. That is not bad, I can get down with this. I'm gonna be all right. How about this ground situation, though? Now that I got a belly full of freeze-ride spaghetti, it's time to retire. So I ended up devising a sleeping pad. I went and got my boat cover, so the boat cover is under there. I've got my charger, I've got my Garmin unit. My phone's not even working right now, so that's how I can tech stuff. Got the pillow, I've got the sleeping bag, I've got extra clothes in here for padding, and I've got my backpack, and there's a lot of room. It's got these little vents, too, that I can open up, but it's probably about 65 degrees outside. It feels really good, and I think I'm gonna be okay without the sleeping pad, the boat cover rolled it up, and I think that's gonna work, so we're gonna be okay. Thanks for coming along on today's adventure, y'all, and it is an adventure. Go ahead and hit the like button for camping on an island and going fishing early in the morning. It's good outdoor greatness. Just got a text back from Steph. I'm gonna text her back, and then I'm gonna lay my head down and prepare for outdoor greatness in the morning, y'all. It's gonna be beautiful. Come along, subscribe right here so you don't miss the next one, and I'll see you then.